Choosing not to report
"The Register decided not to cover these stories because we didn't want put the kiss of death on a UK business amid a pandemic."
This surprises me and while I can see the logic (is a UK business more deserving of your protection? Was there some other link?) and can see it may actually have helped UK Cloud, I wonder about the precedent it sets.
I'm now wondering about what other stories you know about but choose not to report, not because you are unclear if the veracity, but because you wish to protect the subject from bad publicity.